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posted by martyb on Thursday March 07 2019, @03:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the East-Bound-and-Down dept.

Google is rolling out Speed Limit information, and more importantly, Speed Camera alerts to Google Maps widely this week.

Google Maps is also rolling out the ability to see speed cameras on a much larger basis too. For users in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, India, and Indonesia, speed cameras will be marked on the map. An audible alert also plays when users approach these cameras as noted in a smaller rollout earlier this week.

Interestingly, in Alberta this is actually being looked on favorably by government officials

"That camera is only facing one way," Sgt. Gottschling said. "Let's say it's only facing northbound, but you can approach southbound or eastbound ... you are still going to get Google telling you caution.

"So you're going to go slowly and cautiously through there which, lo and behold, is actually what we want."

Sergeant Kerry Bates with the Edmonton Police traffic division agrees.

"If it slows people down and they know it's there, that's good," he said. "It's fine. It does the trick."

Anyone else trying to figure the evil angle?


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 07 2019, @05:21AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 07 2019, @05:21AM (#811033) Journal

    TFT? No, it's hard enough to parse but doesn't come up with the unexpected meaning to be witty - which makes it almost dumb

    I was alluding to the current m's signature while poking him for making fun of the title (when it was in his power to make it better).

    So, yes, it's the editor fault! As always! (grin)

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  • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Thursday March 07 2019, @03:44PM (1 child)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 07 2019, @03:44PM (#811155) Journal

    Yeah, I'm missing something. TFT means... The Fine Text? The First Title? Toys for Thots?

    Regardless, I'm still in favor of taking any credit and it being M's fault if anything is wonky, so it's all good :-)

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 07 2019, @10:38PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 07 2019, @10:38PM (#811369) Journal

      The Fine Title, yes.

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